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The Steps of Time

Chill the north-east air On the bravest cheek Though the March sun sifts Through the clouding sheet As if winter fights The advancing spring, While the daffodils dance In the darting breeze! So sure the measured steps of time Steal slow the strength of men, And years at last Must yield their power To younger blood, To generations yet to be, Till they in turn grow old On time's resistless wheel Of life and death And all would seem A sequence meaningless Of gain and loss, Of hope, despair, Of life, of death. Yet by that dancing daffodil God speaks a lesson pure, Apparent death can spring again And even winter's chill Prepare the heart to find new life In Christ.

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